Show energy usage by month as a % of UK average on the online account

Let’s get back on track, shall we? This thread started with an appeal for figures showing the percentage of annual energy consumption for each month, to make it possible to compare one household’s performance with everyone else’s. I retrieved two possible sources:

• OVO’s own graphic Direct Debit calculator, which shows the variation in expected usage over the year.  
• Government statistics showing domestic energy consumption by month.

While broadly similar, there are significant differences, like which month usually has the lowest usage, or the highest. Still, it is possible to say that  you can expect to use most electricity in December, January and February and least in June, July and August. Surprise surprise!

On the contrary, I think this has been on track. Ovo data can illustrate a household’s percentage use against various averages or totals over a given time period, but can that actually show ‘if there’s a problem’ ? Aren’t there too many variables ? Eg comparing Jeff’s and my data. Also does OVO have data on our house sizes ? 

What a fantastic thread, brilliant analysis done by @Firedog, and brilliant visualisation of that data. 

An interesting final point by @juliamc: can this insight be used to justify any concern or action?

Still, this is definitely a valid idea and we already have a prototype demo to refer to. I’ll change the status of this so it lands on the desk of our product team.